Same-day shipping became the big retailer craze this holiday season. Why? As the New York Times points out, retailers are living in fear of Amazon.com and trying to match what the online retailer offers. The fear factor — Wal-Mart once had a trance on retail. Now it’s Amazon.com. But it’s not just retail that has begun to show deeper […]
Posted on December 30th, 2012 by admin
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Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil. “In the Studio” closes out its inaugural year by welcoming the young CEO of one of the web’s hottest startups who, before his current breakthrough, immigrated from Ireland, dropped out […]
Posted on December 27th, 2012 by admin
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A botched software update to networking gear caused one of GitHub’s all-time worst outages last weekend, the second major disruption that customers of the popular social coding platform have suffered through in the past several weeks. In a blog post, Github’s Mark Imbriaco explained that the December 22 outage came during a software update to […]
Posted on December 27th, 2012 by admin
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Yoics is a startup with a cloud service that connects and networks devices to the cloud. It sounds simple enough but realistically the complexity in connecting devices individually into a network of shared features shows how primitive the general cloud is in its present form. Yoics, which this week received $1 million in a CrunchFund lead investment, […]
Posted on December 26th, 2012 by admin
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Influitive, a marketing company that analyses data around social media, influencer networks and other peer-to-peer techniques to spread the word, has raised another $7.3 million — investment that it will use to continue developing its AdvocateHub marketing platform, as well as to build out its own sales and marketing teams, CEO and co-founder Mark Organ told […]
Posted on December 25th, 2012 by admin
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Catbird has received $2 million in funding from Medina Capita for its security technology for the ever abstracting virtual data center. It is the first investment for the fund — established by Manual Medina, the former chairman and CEO of data center company Terremark Worldwide. Catbird, formed in 2007, provides software that gets injected into VMware’s virtualization technology. […]
Posted on December 25th, 2012 by admin
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Dell made its own move into the bring your own device market today with the acquisition of Credant Technologies and its data protection technologies designed to encrypt information from smartphones and other devices to servers and the cloud. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition points to the further consolidation of the mobile […]
Posted on December 24th, 2012 by admin
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Don’t spout off about social in the business world. Just use it to get the work done, because that’s what matters most. I have been reminded of that often during the year. Earlier this month, I wrote about Moxie Software and how it uses the Facebook social graph and a company’s social data to determine the […]
Posted on December 24th, 2012 by admin
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Ousted from Microsoft, former Windows President Steve Sinofsky tweeted this morning that he is on his way to Harvard Business School to teach project management and collaboration, among other things. First reported by The Next Web, Sinofosky said this on Twitter about his new gig at the Harvard Business School, as well as the writing that he plans to […]
Posted on December 23rd, 2012 by admin
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Earlier this week European Commissioner Neelie Kroes spoke in platitudes about how the EU would be putting more effort into kick-starting the region’s hardware industry — to create the ‘Airbus of chips.’ Her words seem particularly ironic (and possibly more empty) today, as the world’s largest telecoms company, Ericsson, admitted it would have to take […]
Posted on December 23rd, 2012 by admin
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